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Heads Or Tails: Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials, Charles Weijer Oct 2004

Heads Or Tails: Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Waiver Of Consent For Emergency Research, Andrew Mcrae, Charles Weijer Aug 2004

Waiver Of Consent For Emergency Research, Andrew Mcrae, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


When Are Research Risks Reasonable In Relation To Anticipated Benefits?, Charles Weijer, Paul Miller May 2004

When Are Research Risks Reasonable In Relation To Anticipated Benefits?, Charles Weijer, Paul Miller

Charles Weijer

The question "When are research risks reasonable in relation to anticipated benefits?" is at the heart of disputes in the ethics of clinical research. Institutional review boards are often criticized for inconsistent decision-making, a problem that is compounded by a number of contemporary controversies, including the ethics of research involving placebo controls, developing countries, incapable adults and emergency rooms. If this pressing ethical question is to be addressed in a principled way, then a systematic approach to the ethics of risk in research is required. Component analysis provides such a systematic approach.


The Quest For Legitimacy: Comment On Cox Macpherson's 'To Strengthen Consensus, Consult The Stakeholders', Charles Weijer May 2004

The Quest For Legitimacy: Comment On Cox Macpherson's 'To Strengthen Consensus, Consult The Stakeholders', Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


The Ethical Analysis Of Risk In Intensive Care Unit Research, Charles Weijer Mar 2004

The Ethical Analysis Of Risk In Intensive Care Unit Research, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

Research in the intensive care unit (ICU) is commonly thought to pose 'serious risk' to study participants. This perception may be at the root of a variety of impediments to the conduct of clinical trials in the ICU setting. Component analysis offers a promising approach to the ethical analysis of ICU research. Because clinical trials commonly involve a mixture of study interventions, therapeutic and nontherapeutic procedures must be analyzed separately. Therapeutic procedures must meet the requirement of clinical equipoise. Risks associated with nontherapeutic procedures must be minimized consistent with sound scientific design, and be deemed reasonable in relation to the …